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Bright Eyes aka Conor Oberst will tour Europe in the Summer.
Bright Eyes who is re-releasing 'Letting Off The Happiness' on Wichita Records on the 2nd April has announced an European tour for May, the UK dates, with Arab Strap, are as follows:
May
1st - Dublin, Red Box
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"That band with ex members of Spiritualized" have announced an UK tour.
Lupine Howl tour the UK to promote the forthcoming release of their debut album, 'The Carnivorous Lunar Activities of Lupine Howl' on 16th April. The full dates are:
April
23rd - Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach
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New Mexican group The Shins are set to release their debut album this summer.
The follow-up to The Shins' latest 7" single, 'New Slang,' 'Oh, Inverted World' will be released through Sub Pop on the 19th June. The band are currently touring the US with 764-HERO.
To download a MP3 of '»
Ex-Chisel frontman Ted Leo, has announced the release of his second
album.
US label Lookout! Records will release Ted Leo's new album, 'The Tyranny of
Distance', on 19th June.
The tracklisting for 'The Tyranny of Distance' is:
Biomusicology
Parallel or Together
Under »
The Reading festival will definitely go ahead this year
Despite rumours circling that the Reading Festival might be cancelled due to
the recent outburst of Foot & Mouth, the organisers have been given
permission by local authorities to go ahead, even if the disease spreads to
the area.
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Months after Topper announced their split, rumours about what ex-members are currently up to are finally coming to light.
According to the Radio 1's Session in Wales, lead singer, Dyfrig Evans, is believed to have joined Wichita Recordings' Ruby. For a review of their first album in five years, 'Sho»
David Gedge's band tour the UK next month
Cinerama have announced an April tour, with special guests Tahiti 80
supporting. The dates are:
April
23rd - Glasgow King Tuts
24th - Manchester Uni
25th - Birningham Academy
26th - Leicester Princess Charlotte
27th »
Too Pure's Hefner have announced three gigs in Scotland
The band play who recently played a two-night stand in London have revealed
a short tour of Scotland. The dates are:
April
27th - Edinburgh, Venue
28th - Glasgow, 13th Note
29th - Aberdeen, Glow 303
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Welsh poprockers Big Leaves confirm E.P release, gigs and TV appearances.
The 'Animal Instinct EP' is scheduled for release on the 23rd April, thorugh the Dell'Orso label. It will be released on both CD, and 10" vinyl, with both formats being limited to 1000 copies.
There will be gigs aro»
Abuse Records release their third complilation CD.
'Abuse Your Friends #3', the latest compilation on Abuse Records, is set to be released on the 16th April.
The full list of bands included on the CD are:
The Sunset Sound, Brother Eye, Sunlounger, Inimenter, Drowned, Five Knuckle Shuff»
Joey Ramone has apparently been diagnosed with lymphoma, a type of cancer.
According to The New York Daily News, Joey Ramone, the 49 year-old singer of legendary New York punk act The Ramones is suffering from lymphoma. A band spokesperson suggested that the singer may be on a path to recovery: "Joey»
John Phillips, founder of 60's band The Mamas and the Papas, died yesterday morning (18th March) of heart failure.
Phillips formed the Mamas and the Papas in 1965 with his wife, Michelle. He was the main songwriter and penned the hits 'California Dreamin' and 'Monday, Monday' and for the group.
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Wayne Kramer, formerly of legendary Detroit punk band MC5 has stated that US scene these days has become too "commercialised".
"Bands like Blink-182, and you know, I think they're probably decent fellows, I don't know them but, you know, to me it's just cookie-cutter, it's generic music that the recor»
Icon Media/Coffeecup team have announced they've been choosen to produced SFA's debut DVD album release.
The Icon Media/Coffeecup group recently won out against "some top London design competition" to produce the interface for a Super Furry Animal's DVD album.
According to their website
www.popbitch.com has recently become a victim of it's own success.
The non money making operation Popbitch has become too large to run cheaply, and they want subscribers of the weekly mailout server to donate a one-off donation so they can buy a hire a better internet server.
If you're inte»
Funk metal heroes Incubus have announced a series of UK shows for June.
The dates are as follows:
June
6th - Birmingham, Academy
8th - Manchester, Academy
9th - London, Brixton Academy
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Seafood hunt down the Easter bunny
London noiseniks Seafood go on a short tour of the UK supporting The Fall, to preview material from their upcoming album.
The dates are as follows:
April
16th - Newport, TJ's
17th - Brighton, Concorde 2
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Beck is to appear on a tribute album to folk and blues artist Mississippi John Hurt.
Hurt, who passed away in 1966, has often been named as an influence to many modern blues artists and was described as a precursor to the 'softer side of the blues', due to his slow fingerpicking and soft singing style»
Well the messageboards are up so feel free to tell us what you think
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A child who lost the power of speech, suddenly burst into song after listening to Catatonia's 'Mulder and Scully'.
In a mystery worthy of being an X-File, Christopher Howells, of Llanelli, Wales, sang the song word perfect. The two-year-old had only just learned to say 'cat' and 'dog' when he mysterio»
Seattle's Juno have revealed details of the follow up to 1999's 'The Way It Goes And Goes And Goes' album, and have confirmed their UK tour
Juno are set to release their new album, 'A Future Lived in Past Tense', throuhg Desoto Records on the 7th May. The band's three guitarists and one drummer augme»
Weezer play a one-off UK gig on Independence Day.
The band, who's last album 'Pinkerton', was released in 1996, will celebrate American Independence Day with a gig in London. They play at the Shepherd's Bush Empire on 4th July. Tickets cost £12.50. »
Seafood play a one-off gig under the guise of Pooteas.
The gig is the second night of the Club Fandango series at The Dublin Castle, Camden. Seafood who have just come back from a month-long stint recording in New York with Eli Janney from Girls Against Boys, will be premiering brand new tracks from t»
Chino Moreno from the Deftones is to submit a vocal contribution to a previously unreleased Mogwai song.
The song, with a working title of 'Cortez' was written last year and was recorded during the sessions for Mogwai's upcoming album 'Rock Action', which due to be released though Mogwai's own label S»
News of the first ever 'Strange Fruit Presents' night and a SF night Downstairs at the Garage
The Strange Fruit collective have announced their first 'Strange Fruit Presents' gig, the night is intended to showcase "the best and most exciting bands" details of the first night are as follows:
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Calexico have been forced to cancel their upcoming shows in Manchester and Nottingham on 9th and 10th April respectively.
However the band will still play at All Tomorrow's Parties on the 7th April, and at London Ocean Rooms on 11th April . Where support comes from Neko Case and Lincoln.
C»
Mell Street have teamed up with the Strange Fruit and Tigermilking to bring you a bigger, better AnTiciPate this year.
The event takes place Upstairs at the Highbury Garage, on the 5th April, with DJ's (including a set from Scotland's Camera Obscura) playing all your favourite music from 8pm to 2am. I»
San Lorenzo guitarist Owen Tromans has released his debut solo album.
'Box of Tapes' was released this week through Owen's own label Sacred Geometry. You can get your grubby paws on this fine limited edition hand-painted CD, in a swanky Tortoise-esque card sleeve, by emailing Owen on »
Lowgold have hit back at January after being accused of stealing one of their guitars.
A spokeperson for the band said: "That's ridiculous, we had one of their guitars for a day. We wouldn't steal from them anyway, they're too poor."
He then added that the band were "miserable fuckers".
Ex Throwing Muses singer Kristin Hersh has revealed two live dates.
Former Throwing Muses singer Kristin Hersh has announced that she's planning to play two live dates during April.
April
26th - Shepherd's Bush Empire
28th - Dublin's HQ
Hersh releases her fifth»
